Koryn wrote:
I have two cats of my very own. They won't enjoy the trip down, but that's really just too bad.

I have a love-seat I found beside the road in March of 2013.

Call me on the weekend. I'll tell you all about how to travel with savages so they ain't stressed.

Took six from CA to TX and five from TX to OH.

Multi day trips. NO problem.



LuvsU

Amadea T wrote:

Call me on the weekend. I'll tell you all about how to travel with savages so they ain't stressed.

Took six from CA to TX and five from TX to OH.

Multi day trips. NO problem.



LuvsU

My old lady cat is pretty chill. Grendel screams and cries.

Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote:
Never been west of Charlotte, but I've heard that the Great Smoky Mts., and regions thereabouts, are something to experience.  Now, I see that they are.  Have a great trip and some great living in your new home. 

Those pictures can't even start to do it justice.

My parents live near the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. It is 6,684 feet.

"The nearest higher point is Lone Butte in Colorado, 1,189 miles (1,914 km) west, which is only eight feet higher. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell

This was almost in my backyard, growing up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linville_G … eGorge.jpg

Koryn wrote:

My old lady cat is pretty chill. Grendel screams and cries.

Grendel..

I love it!

Does she sit in a carrier when she cries? Do you trust you cats to sit in the car without transporter?

You can start getting her used to carrier. Just let it stand open in the house. Grendel may start using it as a hangout. Catnip, treats, you know the drill.

Then when travel time comes around it won't be so scary any more.

I've also heard good things about the calming collar with momma pheromones... but it's a stretch.

scrymettet wrote:
will it be bring your own roadkill bbq ?

Food so fresh, it still looks surprised.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:
They got possums round those parts?

Yer gonna need there to be possums.

And a banjo, just to pass the time.

I'll be living 5 minutes from one of the best "Beer Cities" in the US:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/travel/usa-beer-towns/

One of the best in the world, according to some people:
http://www.mytravelflavor.com/top-10-be … the-world/


Back when I lived there, I actually had a far more active cultural/social life than I ever had in Boston. There's a lot of arts scene stuff there, and it's a lot more accessible. You can't go do shit around here, unless you have at least $100 to throw at it, $30 of which will go directly toward parking.

Alabaster Crowley wrote:
Can I take noodies of you on that deck?

I'm sure someone will eventually.

Koryn wrote:
I'm sure someone will eventually.

One can dream.....

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BTW,
That porch looks killer !
That Porch + Mojito + View = Happiness

Koryn wrote:



I'll be living 5 minutes from one of the best "Beer Cities" in the US:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/travel/usa-beer-towns/

One of the best in the world, according to some people:
http://www.mytravelflavor.com/top-10-be … the-world/


Back when I lived there, I actually had a far more active cultural/social life than I ever had in Boston. There's a lot of arts scene stuff there, and it's a lot more accessible. You can't go do shit around here, unless you have at least $100 to throw at it, $30 of which will go directly toward parking.

Don't need no possums nor banjoes if you got beer!!!

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

Don't need no possums nor banjoes if you got beer!!!

I visualize roadkill possum pie and beer with banjo music in the background.

Bobby C wrote:

I visualize roadkill possum pie and beer with banjo music in the background.

Yassir!!!

Poke salad and Uncle Clyde on the washtub bass. And beer.

Good times y'all, good times.

I wanna go there and act like I belong, see if anybody guesses I am only an Honorary Okie and not a genuine salt of the earth type.

I bet everybody is really nice, Koryn is always really nice. Raised her right, they did.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

Yassir!!!

Poke salad and Uncle Clyde on the washtub bass. And beer.

Good times y'all, good times.

I wanna go there and act like I belong, see if anybody guesses I am only an Honorary Okie and not a genuine salt of the earth type.

I bet everybody is really nice, Koryn is always really nice. Raised her right, they did.

My mom said my grandmother actually used to make polk salad.

Of course, my mom pronounces it, "poke salid."

Koryn wrote:

My mom said my grandmother actually used to make polk salad.

Of course, my mom pronounces it, "poke salid."

Fresh greens, hard to go wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw

Koryn wrote:
My mom said my grandmother actually used to make polk salad.

Of course, my mom pronounces it, "poke salid."

I've never had the honor of having Polk Salid, but I loooove this song,
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw&feature=kp

"...
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
For the mama was working on the chain-gang
What a mean, vicious woman

Everyday before suppertime
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of Polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack
..."

Bobby C wrote:

I've never had the honor of having Polk Salid, but I loooove this song,
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw&feature=kp

Beat you by one post!!! Great stuff yo!

Koryn wrote:
My cat says hi everyone.

I'm going to go watch a documentary on Lewis and Clark, and drink cheap whiskey with ice in it.

I ain't got no whiskey!!!

Dangit.

Plus I have to work tomorrow.

At least they pay me.

Cheers!

B L ZeeBubb wrote:
... Koryn is always really nice. Raised her right, they did.

She seems like a nice Southern gal.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

Beat you by one post!!! Great stuff yo!

Here's the version he did with the Man in Black. Great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vkYVWA6yzY

Bobby C wrote:

I've never had the honor of having Polk Salid, but I loooove this song,
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw&feature=kp

"...
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
For the mama was working on the chain-gang
What a mean, vicious woman

Everyday before suppertime
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of Polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack
..."

I am familiar with this song.

Koryn wrote:

I am familiar with this song.

Gators git yer granny?

Koryn wrote:
Found out today that my application to take over my best friend's lease on his log cabin in western NC, after he moves out at the beginning of August, came through.

This is so awesome!!!

I am planning on having a log cabin, or regular cabin in the Catskills, with a barn that will be a multi-purpose thingy, e.g. practicing martial arts, meditation, maybe photoshoots and a place where I can paint!

You are way ahead of me!

Congratulations!!!   

Vintagevista wrote:
Looks like a place that somebody could refer to as "Home"

And mean it..

Mostly, it's"home" to me because it's where my two best friends are, and my other very close buddy is moving back this month, after six years in Portland, Oregon.

Boston has been good to me, because it's a place where if you work hard, you can actually do something with yourself. But, it's a "hard" culture too, and the people are as prickly as the barnacles that grow on the ocean rocks. Asheville is basically the exact opposite; the local culture is hippy-dippy and friendly, and all about peace, love and the pursuit of personal happiness. Unlike Boston, there are vegan restaurants on every block, and cheap music venues, and stuff to do for people who are perpetually broke. I'm glad I moved up here, but it gets lonely, and I have not even remotely come close to making the same friendships up here that I did there. The longer I've stayed up here, the more appealing the "never grow up" mentality of my hometown has become.